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Which popular books best captured the spirit of the decade in which they were published?

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Books of the Zeitgeist
� By Kevin Drum| Sat Apr. 2, 2011 10:23 AM PDT

One of Tyler Cowen's readers asks which books are the Great Gatsby of each decade since the 20s? I take this to mean books that both sold well and have come to represent their era. Sounds like fun. Here are Tyler's picks in bold, with alternates from me:

1930s: The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck. That would be my choice too, though I might add Gone With the Wind as the biggest escapist novel of a decade that really needed its escapism.

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http://motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2011/04/books-zeitgeist

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